Emotions play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. As human beings we can experience many emotions throughout the day, for example, we may experience sadness when given bad news, but experience happiness when given good news. Like most psychological phenomena’s, emotions are recognised fairly easily but are difficult to define. How can we define happiness, sadness or fear in a way that everyone can agree? According to Hockenbury et al (2007) emotions are “complex psychological states that involve three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioural or expressive response." In order to understand fully what emotions are, researchers have tried to identify the different types of emotions. Eckman (1972) proposed that there are six basic emotions that are experienced universally by human beings: fear, disgust, anger, surprise, happiness and sadness. Emotions are key to healthy social and cognitive functioning (Holt et al, 2012). Therefore, there has been numerous research carried out in order to explain emotional development. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the different theories of how we experience emotion. I will be focussing on the James-Lange theory (1884), the Cannon-Bard theory (1915) and the Schacter-Singer theory (1962). James and Lange (1884) proposed that we experience emotion because we perceive our body’s physiological responses to external events. For example, instead of…

Hypothesis
The goal for this experiment was to research if and when people use other’s emotions when forming their own attitude. Mainly focusing on the effects of sadness, anger, and happiness in interpersonal relationships. For this experiment, the researchers hypothesized for hypothesis 1 that subjects observing a source’s emotions will form attitudes that are identical with that of the source’s emotional expression. For hypothesis 2, researchers stated that a source’s emotional expressions play…

Emotions, an affective state of consciousness, different from cognitive and volitional states, in which fear, sadness, joy, anger, hate ect. is experienced. Emotions are a grand part of life when they include feelings of euphoria, happiness, content and satisfaction, but emotions such as loneliness, sadness, grief, bereavement, are not so welcome at the emotional door. Emotions seem to be a natural born part of life, adapted to what one has been taught throughout their life, while other…

Perceived Happiness, Imperceptible Sadness
I was raised in churches; like most kids I knew. So when my first marriage ended in divorce after only a year, when I was 19 years old, many in my family and community looked down on me for not being married. I was always told by my grandparents and preachers that I would only be happy as an adult if I was married, took care of my husband, and had kids that I raised to be god fearing Christians as well, “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights”…

Sadness is an emotion that has a bad reputation in our society and is often categorized as weakness or depression. In the film, Inside Out, it shows its viewers what is happening in the mind of an 11-year-old girl, Riley. At the beginning of the film, Joy admits that she doesn’t understand what Sadness is for or why it’s even in Riley’s head when sadness is introduced. At one point in life, many of us have probably questioned the purpose of sadness and why we need it because it makes us feel terrible…

Introduction
Emotions are what drive us towards our peers, and they can be defined subjective states that trigger reactions reaction to either external or internal stimuli. On the other hand, these emotions should never be confused with feelings since these two terms form a distinct meaning and implications. Feelings tend to be brief while emotions have lasting impacts on the lives of individuals. Indeed, moods are strongly affected by our emotions rather than by our feelings.
Furthermore, emotions are…

ask the question of “What anger is?” Today in the 21st century people deal with anger and do not know how to deal with it. Before dealing with anger you would have to know what causes anger and what to do when others deal with anger.
According to Think Psychology anger is an emotion is a reaction to an object, event, person or memory (Baird, 194). Anger is a type of emotion, which is experienced with facial expressions. Anger is a type of emotion, which is a primary emotion. Some influences of an emotional…

After reading the essays by Aristotle ‘Anger’ and Robert C. Solomon’s ‘Anger as a Way of Engaging the World, I have discovered that anger is a strong emotion and can come from many sources.
In comparing the two essays written, both Aristotle and Solomon seem to make similar statement about the sources of anger, that it’s takes a sender and a receiver to complete the emotion of anger. Both are stating that an outside source could have caused the anger and the person offended is seeking a satisfaction…

Sadness means suffering in silence. Many people suffer because they have their heart broken, they have problems at work, they have had a fight with a dear person, they have lost something, or someone. Sadness means sorrow, grief, being upset etc. Sadness is a state of mind that comes and goes as it pleases. Today we can be sad tomorrow we can forget about yesturday. Life is about going through bad and good moments so it`s normal to feel sad sometimes. Sadness can manifest itself through emotions…

Anger is a universal emotion. It might make you act out and throw something, or it might boil up inside you until you blow up on some innocent person simply asking a question. How every person reacts to anger is different, some people may deal with anger more efficiently than others: like counseling, therapy or by taking medication that mainly focuses on depression or anxiety which fuels anger. People often wonder if they have anger problems and if it’s genetic. Not many know what part of the brain…

Anger is a very common emotion in the world. It’s extremely difficult to always be calm and never experience difficult emotions. Anger can be a small issue such as road rage to a more harsh feeling like warfare. Anger is known as one of the seven deadly sins of the world. It’s also one sin that pretty much everyone has experienced at least once in their lifetime. The nature of anger is a very complicated subject. Questions often occur asking why is anger such a easy emotion to feel? What can cause…